Tidbits on a Tuesday

So on Friday last week the No Cook ladies threw me a surprise retirement party. I was totally clueless. To be honest I had forgotten about it. They said they would but time passed, I moved on and never gave it a thought. They had done my parade, I figured it was covered so I put it out of my mind. They did not and they got me.

The wonderful thing about friends is if they are true good friends they indulge your own personal level of crazy, They run with it and celebrate it with you. So for my party, they embraced my love of all things Hiddleston and the results were awesome

 

His image was all over the yard. It made me giggle. He was with us in effigy, which tickled me to no end. I received the cutest piggy picture which has now taken up residence over the couch in my living room. Aside from Mr Hiddleston I am enchanted by all things pig. I received a basket of English themed snacks and all in all it was a very lovely fun filled night which still had a big stupid grin on my face the next day. I still smile when I think of it. My friends are the best.

Picture proof that yes the picture is up and over my couch. I still have some shuffling to do with the pictures that were originally there but I have a plan. One will be taken down and another will be moved to my bedroom.

I finished a baby quilt just yesterday. Its in the wash with my row by row quilt and I have not taken pictures of them yet. I will once they are fresh and clean. I cannot really post a picture of the baby quilt until the Grandma has seen it. That will happen very soon. I think I need to step back from quilts for a couple of days and get some other things done. Best Friend's quilt made with her Dad's ties is next up on the docket.

Today  I am just doing odd jobs, I haven't really slept in the last few days so I am mostly running on fumes. So far to day I have done some ironing. I know they are so out of style but I do love a doily. I starched and ironed a few of them today. I glued the cap back on the giant glass mushroom. I have put quilting material back where it belongs. I am hell on wheels getting stuff out but am a bit of a slow poke when it comes to putting it all away. Today I need to make a baby card, wrap a gift, take the garbage, recycle and compost out. I then need to make sure the dumpsters are in place for tomorrow's pick up. I desperately need to make a trip to the basement to turn on the water to the outside tap. In my world that almost overwhelms me and its such a simple thing for anyone else to do. I hang my head in shame but it is what it is. Oh well we shall see what happens.

Toodles

Linda

Nearly forgot

I hate to admit this because it makes me sound like a bit of a twit but I gone to check twice now for something I intended to mention in my post only to find that I have not actually done the post. I am going to blame it on the fact that I am trying out the NEW BLOGGER. Why they need to keep changing things that work perfectly fine I shall never know but they do. So here we are giving the new system a whirl.

I finally got the back flower bed weeded!! I am so happy. All of the hostas were poking their little heads up through the dirt so I could locate them. I have four new ones to plant in there and I do think I will need at least three more to complete the hosta bed. Here are some before and after pictures

Somehow I managed to remove the cap off of the large glass mushroom. Nothing broke but the hold that the glue had on it so I can repair it. This is the after party:

One of these fine days I will complete the planting and all will be well in my world. Actually all is well in my world most of the time. I have some trees to trim and some rearranging to do but its all getting there. My neighbour was going to use a portion of my flower bed but his plans have changed. I had been hoping he would dig it up as its a weedy mess but that is on me now. Crap. He says he may use it next year. Well I think I am going to go ahead and plant some shrubs there because he has not followed through on much he has said he would do, like cutting down the trees and planting my flower bed. Best to just get on with it and do what pleases me. Lilac bushes and lilies please me. On the list for next year.

The Hostess was in town on Monday and she very kindly treated me to lunch. I have to say it was very strange to be going out to a restaurant after all this time/ We had delicious Chinese food and got caught up on our lives. It was also wonderful to be going out for lunch on a school day and not have to panic about getting back to work on time. Retirement still is new and wonderful and full of happy surprises

Today the last row of my row by row quilt is up on Facebook. I have to sew it up, attach it and quilt the row. I have as much of the quilt done as I can do. Its sewn, quilted and bound right up to the last row

I have so enjoyed this project. I will of course be sharing a picture once it is all completed. I also got the material to make a baby quilt for a friend, in the mail today. I have a super cute pattern figured out for it and I cannot wait to get going on it so I can show it off.

On this last Friday, the No Cook group celebrated KitKat's birthday. Cars were decorated. This pink beauty was on top of The Banker's car with signs announcing the birthday girl's special day. He then moved to the yard to be in more pictures

We played highland games. Tossed rocks, tossed cabers and did some golf (mini golf but golf non the less)

It was so much fun I think these highland games need to become a yearly event. We had barbecued hot dogs and potato salad with cake to complete the event.

And we photographed the whole deal because 4 of us are scrapbookers!!

In spite of the sun the wind was chilly but we hung in there and had just a great time. I love these women.

Well there now I finally got a blog post done/

Toodles

Linda